7. but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;
8. not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,
9. for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor--being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
10. and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you [is] expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before--a year ago,
11. and now also finish doing [it], that even as [there is] the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,
12. for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;